Yearly Archives: 2003

The preliminary findings of the largest on-going study examining children at risk for bipolar disorder. Can an early symptom profile be detected? The clinical features of hyper-alertness and oversensitivity as early predictors of a bipolar disorder. Latest News: Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation Genetic Study Conferences in Colorado Springs and Ashville, North Carolina featuring Demitri Papolos,…

A mother from New Jersey wrote and described a scene that occurred not long ago as she was driving her nine-year-old son to soccer practice. A commercial for an anxiety clinic came on the radio and the announcer asked: “Do you worry a lot about things that don’t seem to bother other people? Are you…

Three years ago, we published the first issue of The Bipolar Child Newsletter, and in the opening paragraph we outlined what we hoped to accomplish: We wrote: “We thought an e-mail newsletter would be a good forum in which to keep parents, educators, and mental health professionals abreast of the newest findings in the fields…